Date: Fri, 13 Aug 2010 11:10:20 +0100 From: Bob Bishop <rb@gid.co.uk> To: "William D. Colburn (Schlake)" <schlake@gmail.com> Cc: freebsd-stable <freebsd-stable@freebsd.org> Subject: Re: My kernel panics sucked, but they seem to be gone now. Message-ID: <2A674A7B-D72A-4B5F-B274-23C654B1C4B2@gid.co.uk> In-Reply-To: <AANLkTi=AHa3-5Qp4arW6jHc3UmQxQPi8TaGGC%2BDv2Nqe@mail.gmail.com> References: <AANLkTi=AHa3-5Qp4arW6jHc3UmQxQPi8TaGGC%2BDv2Nqe@mail.gmail.com>
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Hi, On 13 Aug 2010, at 04:33, William D. Colburn (Schlake) wrote: > A rehash of the problem: > > If my computer was plugged into the UPS and sitting on my metal desk > the drive controllers would fail and cause a panic almost immediately > when booted. If my computer was plugged into wall power and sitting > on a wooden table, the machine ran flawlessly. > > New information: > > Removing the UPS, but leaving the computer on the metal desk make the > panics happen a lot less, about every four to seven days. Sometimes > after a crash it couldn't boot because no hard drives could be found > at all, but that always went away with a few power cycles. Is your metal desk earthed? > One of my SATA cards has been with me since 2005. It was a rock solid > card on my old FreBSD install...as long as I didn't plug anything into > SATA port 2. I always had this feeling that something wasn't quite > right with port 2 and that I should avoid it. But I'm running FreeBSD > 8 now, and having strange problems. So I removed the card completely > and my system hasn't crashed since. Which still doesn't prove it was > the card. Removing the card could just have made it even more > intermittent. > > In summary: I hate hardware almost as much as I hate linux. :-) > -- > -- Schlake -- Bob Bishop rb@gid.co.uk
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